Bergren, A. L. 1975. The Etymology and Usage of ΠΕΙΡΑΡ in Early Greek Poetry: A Study of the Interrelationships of Metrics, Linguistics, and Poetics. American Classical Studies 2 (American Philological Association). New York.

Seidensticker, B. 1978. “Archilochus and Odysseus.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 19: 5–22. Presents evidence showing that the persona of Archilochus is a function of Archilochean poetry and that it is parallel to the persona of Odysseus in the Odyssey.

———, ed. 1992. The Iliad: A Commentary. Vol. 4, Books 13–16. Cambridge. See 106 on the etymology of MENIS and on the name of Aeneas; 339 on THERAPON; 341 on the etymology of the name of Achilles; 345 on Thersites.

Koenen, L. 1994. “Cyclic Destruction in Hesiod and the Catalogue of Women.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 124: 1–34. On the Hesiodic myth of the five generations of humankind.

Lefkowitz, M. R. 1981. The Lives of Greek Poets. Baltimore. For an alternative approach to the “vita” traditions of Greek poets see my references in the Foreward §7n5.

Leontis, A. 1995. Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland. Ithaca. See 6n9, applying the hermeneutic model of Panhellenism “to a specifically modem pattem of administrative centralization and intellectual activity coordinated within the ideological framework of a national territory.”

[&] ———. 1990b. Greek Mythology and Poetics. Ithaca. Revised paperback version 1992. Ch.2 is a rewritten version of Nagy 1976b.

———. 1994. “The Name of Achilles: Questions of Etymology and ‘Folk Etymology’.” Illinois Classical Studies 19 (Studies in Honor of Miroslav Marcovich, vol. 2): 3–9. The thematic connections of âkhos and Akhilleus in Homeric diction are thoroughly reexamined; 5 on combining methods of etymological and formulaic analysis; 7n23 on mênis, on which see also the comments below about Palmer 1979.

[&] Nagy, J. F. 1985. The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition. Berkeley.

O’Brien, J. V. 1993. The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad. Lanham, MD.

Opland, J. 1989. “Xhosa: The Structure of Xhosa Eulogy and the Relation of Eulogy to Epic.” In Hainsworth and Halto 1989: 121–143.

Palmer, L. R. 1979. “A Mycenaean ‘Akhilleid’?” In Serta Philologica Aenipontana, Vol. 3. Ed. R. Muth and G. Pfohl. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft 20. 255–261. Palmer provides further evidence for the etymological connection of âkhos and Akhüleùs; 258 on my original discussion of mênis, with reference to Nagy 1976c: 211–212 (not mentioned by Watkins 1977; see also my rewritten version above in Ch.5§8n1 and n. 2, where I refer to the later discussion of Watkins 1977); see also s.v. Nagy 1994. For an update on mênis, see now Muellner 1996.

———.1980. The Greek Language. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 37 and 98 on the name of Achilles.

Seaford, R. 1994. Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State. Oxford. See especially 144–154 on the evolutionary model for the making of Homeric poetry; also on Panhellenism.

Segal, C. 1983. “Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey.” Antiquité Classique 52: 22–47. Rewritten as Ch.5 in Segal 1994.

Thalmann, W. G. 1984. Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry. Baltimore.

[&] Vernant, J.-P. 1985. Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs: Etudes de psychologie historique. 2nd ed., revised and augmented. Paris. The English-language version, Myth and Thought among the Greeks (London 1983), is based on the 1st edition (Paris 1965), and needs to be updated. See 86–106 of the 1985 version, especially 100–106, on the Hesiodic myth of the five generations of humankind.

———. 1995. How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Oxford. See 173: “Nagy in numerous publications (1974, 1979, 1990b) has rightly focused on the importance of distinguishing the synchronic and the diachronic in the study of formulas.”

Wills, L. M. 1997. The Quest of the Historical Gospel: Mark, John, and the Origins of the Gospel Genre. London. See 27–30 on Aesop; 35–36, 45 on god-hero antagonism.

Wilson, D. F. 1997. “The Politics of Compensation in the Homeric Iliad.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin. She argues persuasively that Achilles does not actually accept Agamemnon’s offer in Iliad XIX. Accordingly, I have adjusted my wording at Ch.7§§15 and 19.

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